Peters family name history and map
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Peters in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 533 people named Peters in Ireland; roughly one in every 8,200 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 278 men and 250 women. (A small number, 5, had no sex recorded.)
Counties and map with Peters in Ireland
Tipperary was Peters country: 32.5% of them (173 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Down (77), Antrim (58), Dublin (37) and Cork (34).
Peters average age in 1911
The average Peters in 1911 was 28.3 years old, 27.5 for men and 29.1 for women; a touch younger than the national averages of 29.6 for men and 30.5 for women. That low figure reflects just how many children there were in Edwardian Ireland, along with high infant mortality and the limits of public health at the time. For comparison, average life expectancy in Ireland today is around 83.
Peters literacy in 1911
Of the Peterses whose literacy was recorded, 80.8% could both read and write, 3.7% could read but not write, and 15.5% could do neither. Women came out slightly ahead, 85.5% reading and writing against 77.1% of men. Bear in mind these figures include young children; the census itself only counted people aged nine and over when calculating illiteracy, on the grounds that it was unfair to label a child illiterate before they'd had a chance to learn.
Peters common first names
The most common male names were John (32), William, James, Thomas and Patrick. For women it was Mary (35), followed by Margaret, Annie, Bridget and Ellen; matching the national top five exactly.
Peters occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Peters's census form was "Scholar"; 21.8% (116) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were farmer (10.3%), general labourer (5.8%), farm labourer (4.1%) and domestic servant (2.8%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 14.6% of all Peterses, followed by general labourers, domestic service and textiles & clothing.
What religion is Peters?
Most Peterses, 62.5%, were Roman Catholic. The remainder were mostly Presbyterian (19.1%), Anglican (15%) and Methodist (1.9%).
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Peters statistics (1911)
Number: 533
Rank: 1,286
Average Age: 28
Peters in the USA (2020)
Number: 132,098
Rank: 215
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it may show as zero.
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